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With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Hildegard of Bingen

Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Restore River Water World
Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Circle Division God Limitation Power
The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Spirit Stand Word
Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Brave Hard Time Strong World
I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Evil Failure God Love Myself
We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Home Light Live Ourselves See Terror Voice World
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Be Yourself Dare Leap Preparation Silence Way
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Consider God Universe
Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Creature Divine Mirror
When one’s thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one’s thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious — they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Thinking
Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Body Earth Faith Fragile Heaven Mirror Place Reflection Soul
If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Alcohol Oneself Preparation
Love abounds in all things, excels from the depths to beyond the stars, is lovingly disposed to all things. She has given the king on high the kiss of peace.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Excellence Kiss Love Peace
All of creation is a song of praise to God.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Creation God Praise
You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

God Mystery Yourself
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Beautiful Easy Face God Mystery See Sun

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